My mundane life has intervened with updating (and consolidating)
this series as I had originally hoped to, but not only has that
situation changed a bit of late, but the situation on the national
and world stage is such as to demand commentary. The numbering
below continues from the original series.

I will note that other authors have now published whole books
on the subject of impeachable offenses.

3 (updated) Obamacare (Updated from Parts 1 and 4)

There have been several developments in the Obamacare saga this
week:

a. In Part 4, I wrote "The true costs are becoming apparent, and
it's going to be expensive. Much more expensive. This means that more
people will be forced out of the private insurance market and into
the federal exchange system..."

b. Everyone with a body temperature of more than 50 degrees
Fahrenheit and two functioning synapses between their ears now
realizes that Obamacare was sold on criminally fraudulent pretenses.
Over 4 million individual insurance policies have already been
cancelled because of non-compliance with Obamacare, exposing the
President's oft-repeated claim of "If you like your coverage, you
can keep your coverage" as a blatant falsehood (and he's so sorry
that you believed him). Either he is guilty of deliberate fraud,
or he is so incompetent that Iranian-born shadow president Valerie
Jarret's main job must be wiping the drool off, and I will note that
those are not mutually exclusive propositions. The promise "If you
like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" is also exposed as a
lie because the new Obamacare-compliant policies are not even
transportable between counties of the same state, much less between
states, as evidenced by the California cancer victim who wrote in
the Wall Street Journal last week. The promise that "you
will save $2500 per year" has become "you will pay $2500 more per
year for every member of your family"—someone, after all, has to
pay Sandra Fluke's $300 per month (her estimate) contraceptive bill.
Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks has revealed that Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Alabama will be paying more than $200 million per year in
new taxes to help fund subsidies to persons who can't afford the
higher costs of mandatory insurance. That's money that is evidently
coming out of the increased fees charged to those who can pay.

Even worse, estimates are that by the time the delayed Employer
mandate kicks in next October (just in time for the 2014 Congressional
elections, which is one reason DemoRats are scurrying to abandon the
sinking ship like the Rats they are), the combined loss to the individual
and employer-paid health insurance market will be between 90 and 120
million individual policies.

Thus Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, AND every other Democrat who
voted for this atrocity are guilty of criminal fraud and should
be impeached, except that there are no Constitutional provisions
for impeachment when more than 1/3 of both houses of Congress are
equally guilt and equally committed to not acknowledging, much less
voting for, their own impeachment. (Not even Mark Levin, in this
summer's excellent book The Liberty Amendments, addressed this
issue—although I did, in my set of proposed amendments in
No Loopholes: Getting Back to Basics, available from
Twilight Time Books and on Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble
Nook.). One could further make the case that they are accomplices
to attempted murder of those people for whom health insurance is
essential, whose policies have been cancelled (such as the lady
noted above; there are other cases in the news). And the civil
liability if some brave soul should bring a class action lawsuit
for damages is already on the order of $40 billion (4 million
people, $2000 in increased costs per year for five years,
excluding punitive damages and court costs/legal fees) and can
be expected to increase to almost $1 trillion by the end of next
year.

7. Excesses and consequences regarding the War Power Act

The original discussion in Part 3 centered on the conduct of
the air battle against Libya and briefly alluded to the developing
discussion of the attack on the consulate in Benghazi. The continued
obfuscation regarding what happened in Benghazi, and in particular
the use of intimidation to prevent persons knowledgeable of the
situation from testifying before Congress, should itself be considered
an impeachable offense, as well as a disqualifier for the then-Secretary
of State ever becoming president.

Despite the cover up, it now appears likely that what happened in
Benghazi was related to efforts to provide arms and support to the
Syrian rebels. Since both the government of Syria and the majority
of the rebel forces are inimical to the United States, supporting
either side is, unambiguously, providing "aid and comfort to an enemy,"
and is thus directly a "high crime" under the United States Constitution.
Only the President's and current Secretary of State's ineptness, the
advantage taken of that failure by the President of Russia, and the
near-universal outrage at intervention by the People and the Congress
(the liberals for the usual reasons, and the Conservatives for the
reason I cited) prevented the Administration from straying directly
into that conflict.

One other note: in the present imbroglio regarding nuclear
negotiations with Iran, my sentiment is with the President of
Israel, who apparently is not at the table and whose country has
the most to lose if the negotiations fail or if Iran negotiates
in bad faith (which I would anticipate). The same considerations
outlined above regarding the Syrian rebels, some 70%+ of whom are
affiliated with either the terrorist organizations Al-Qaeda or the
Moslem Brotherhood, apply to Iran.1

9. Foreign use of drones as a tool for assassination.

The President has said "I've become very good at killing." Enough said?

Terence James Mason is the author of No Loopholes:
Getting Back to Basics, an assessment of the meaning of the Bill
of Rights and a suggestion of additional Constitutional Amendments to
restore the Framer's vision for the Republic. No Loopholes is
electronically published by
Twilight Times Books
in Kindle, Nook, and other popular electronic formats. Mason tweets
on the need for #NoLoopholes @OneAmericanVoice. Web site:
www.oneamericanvoice.me

Notes

1 One cannot assume that the only danger foreign tyrants pose to
the United States, its interests, and its citizens, is as foils that
potential American tyrants can use to justify curtailing American
liberties.